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Fairview Dome is a prominent 
granite dome
Granite domes are domical hills composed of granite with bare rock exposed over most of the surface. Generally, domical features such as these are known as bornhardts. Bornhardts can form in any type of plutonic rock but are typically composed ...
in Yosemite National Park
Yosemite National Park ( ) is a List of national parks of the United States, national park of the United States in California. It is bordered on the southeast by Sierra National Forest and on the northwest by Stanislaus National Forest. The p ...
, located north of Cathedral Peak and west of Tuolumne Meadows
Tuolumne Meadows () is a gentle, dome-studded, sub-alpine meadow area along the Tuolumne River in the eastern section of Yosemite National Park in the United States. Its approximate location is . Its approximate elevation is . The term ''Tuolumn ...
. Near Fairview Dome is Marmot Dome, linked by an area called ''Razor Back''. Northwest is Hammer Dome.
John Muir
John Muir ( ; April 21, 1838December 24, 1914), also known as "John of the Mountains" and "Father of the national park, National Parks", was a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, botanist, zoologist, glaciologi ...
wrote of the peak:
The north face North face or Northface or The North Face may refer to:
* North face (Eiger), in the Bernese Alps in Switzerland
* North Face (Everest), in Himalaya, usually traversed ascending Everest from the north
* North face (Fairview Dome), a climbing route i ...
route is popular with rock climbers and is listed in the classic guidebook ''Fifty Classic Climbs of North America
''Fifty Classic Climbs of North America'' is a 1979 climbing guidebook
Climbing guidebooks are used by mountaineers, alpinists, ice climbers, and rock climbers to locate, grade, and navigate climbing routes on mountains, climbing crags, or ...
''. Routes vary in difficulty up to possibly class 5.11.
References
Granite domes of Yosemite National Park Landforms of Tuolumne County, California Hills of California {{TuolumneCountyCA-geo-stub